How To Safe New knoppix-data.img

[Werner P. Schulz]

Boot with stick I and tell us the output

df -h

If you make a Flash disk install using another USB stick of Knoppix, then the persistent memory of the other USB stick will also be copied to the new stick (stick II). Perhaps within stick I isn't already enough free available space of persistent memory.

[Retep]

Hopefully last chapter of this thread.

I made a completely new install. Formated USB stick II first. Proceeded with install from USB stick I. Now comes the change!! At the end of the install a window pops-up and asks to install overlays showing a slide full to the possible maximum space. On previous installs I either clicked on cancel or yes (??). If the latter no overlays were made, however, I am not so sure anymore what I clicked. This time I moved the slide back to 2.1 Gig, click on (yes) and the overlay started to be implemented.


On the previous install which caused problems, when booting the first time one is asked to give the amount of space for overlays. I put always the maximum and then told to wait for some time. It seemed by the time it took, that the overlay was created which apparently was not the case.???


Now the new install has survived several bootings intact. I did 'apt-get update' and could then install joe, gkrellm and sylpheed and skype has a nice icon on the desktop and opens with one click. I copied Skype over from my working box.


Stick I df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1       3.8G  1.9G  1.9G  50% /mnt-system
tmpfs           2.0G  1.2M  2.0G   1% /ramdisk
/dev/cloop      1.9G  1.9G     0 100% /KNOPPIX
unionfs         2.0G  1.2M  2.0G   1% /UNIONFS
unionfs         2.0G  1.2M  2.0G   1% /usr
unionfs         2.0G  1.2M  2.0G   1% /home
tmpfs            10M   64K   10M   1% /UNIONFS/var/run
tmpfs            20M  2.8M   18M  14% /run
tmpfs            10M     0   10M   0% /UNIONFS/var/lock
tmpfs           100M   56K  100M   1% /UNIONFS/var/log
tmpfs           2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp
udev             20M  4.0K   20M   1% /dev
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm

Stick II df -h new install

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1       3.8G  2.7G  1.1G  72% /mnt-system
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /ramdisk
/dev/cloop      1.9G  1.9G     0 100% /KNOPPIX
/dev/loop0      2.0G  4.5M  2.0G   1% /KNOPPIX-DATA
unionfs         2.0G  4.5M  2.0G   1% /UNIONFS
unionfs         2.0G  4.5M  2.0G   1% /usr
unionfs         2.0G  4.5M  2.0G   1% /home
tmpfs            10M   64K   10M   1% /UNIONFS/var/run
tmpfs            20M  2.8M   18M  14% /run
tmpfs            10M     0   10M   0% /UNIONFS/var/lock
tmpfs           100M   56K  100M   1% /UNIONFS/var/log
tmpfs           2.0G   20K  2.0G   1% /tmp
udev             20M  4.0K   20M   1% /dev
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm

After installing the new mentioned programs those unionfs now read 16 % and the defective previous installs read 100 %